• blackbelt352@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Eh I like to take the George Carlin approach to golf courses they’re large swaths of land that take a lot of chemicals, and water to maintain by cheap labor hidden just far enough away so rich fucks can hit a tiny white ball with a metal stick into a plastic cup.

    I’ll agree that overall golf courses aren’t the source of the problems, but they’re the distillation of how our society is structured to how so many resources and exploited labor go into maintaining the wealthy’s way of life.

    • IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Golf isn’t really that elitist these days. There are public courses everywhere, games off hours are $20, and equipment can be had for a few hundred dollars. It’s pretty middle class compared to the actual elitist sports.

      • WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]@reddthat.com
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        6 months ago

        few hundred dollars compared like near $0-$100 for a lot of sports with free courts/fields at parks (basketball, volleyball, soccer, and flag football are like $20 for a whole group to be able to play for as long as a ball lasts, sports like baseball and tennis require individuals to have some equipment but far less than golf costs), that’s still kinda a lot, especially as a basic cost to enter. OTOH… I have more than one bike and I spent nearly $3K on one solely for hobby use when I was making roughly minimum wage, so its far from elitist.

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          6 months ago

          I’m not saying it’s totally accessible. I’m just saying it hasn’t been a rich/elitists game for some 20 year now.

          • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            6 months ago

            Exactly

            I know plenty of people who golf on the weekends who make our state’s minimum wage

            Or hell going down to the local driving range is pretty fun as well and something I do on occasion